Travel Health Resources

External Links For Travel Medicine Information

Visit these travel health links for further Information regarding travel health issues or related topics:

World Health Map:

• World Health Map

Travel Health Kit:

•          Travel Health Kits- Public Health Agency of Canada
•         ”How to assemble the Perfect First Aid Kit“- International Association for Medical Assitance to Travellers
•          “Her First Aid Travel Kit”

Travel Health:

• Travel Medicine Program – Public Health Agency of Canada
• Travel Health Advisories – Public Health Agency of Canada
• National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI)
• Committee to Advise on Tropical Medicine and Travel (CATMAT)
• Travelling abroad- Government of Canada

International Travel and Health Medicine:

• World Heath Organization
• International Society of Travel Medicine
• Center for Infectious Disease
• BC Center for Disease Control
• Service Canada: Travelling Abroad

Altitude Sickness:

• Center for Disease Control 

Information For The Student Traveller:

• Advice for Safe and Healthy Travel for Students- CDC
• Uvic Student Health Services

Cruise Ship Travellers:

• Cruise Ship Inspection Program

Medical Assistance:

• International Association for Medical Assistance to Travellers
• Request Emergency Assistance

Children and Immunizations:

• BC Health Guide: BC Health File # 41d
• Immunization Get The Facts: Canadian Coalation for Immunization Awareness

The Pregnant Traveler:

• BC Health Guide
• Public Heath Agency of Canada

Other Travel Health Clinics and Resources:

• Travel Health Online Website
• The Travel Clinic – Dr Mark Wise
• Well Travelled Clinics | Travel Vaccination Specialists: Our travel clinic is part of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and specialist advice, inoculations, holiday injections and overall travel health.
•           Travel Wise:  Holiday and Vacation Guides including World Travel and International Tourism information

For specific concerns please visit the following sites for detailed information. We advise you to read over these files and come to your appointment prepared with your questions.

• Dukoral for Travellers: BC Health File # 41k
• Travellers Diarrhea: BC Health File # 41e
• Hepatitis A: BC Health File #33

             www.bccdc.ca/imm-vac/VaccinesBC/ImmsVaccineHepA.htm

• Hepatitis B :BC Health File #25a

• Japanese Encephalitis: BC Health File # 41h

             www.bccdc.ca/dis-cond/a-z/_j/JapaneseBEncephalitis/overview/Japanese+Encephalitis.htm

• Malaria: BC Health File #41f
• Measles, Mumps, Rubella: BC Health File # 14a
• Meningococcal C Infection: Conjugate Vaccine BC Health File # 23a

• Oral Rehydration Solutions

             www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/tmp-pmv/info/oral-eng.php

• Polio: BC Health File # 13

             www.bccdc.ca/imm-vac/VaccinesBC/PolioVaccine.htm

• Rabies:  BC Health File # 07
• Sexually Transmitted Diseases and the Traveller: BC Health File
• Typhoid: BC Health File # 41j
• Yellow Fever: BC Health File #41i